EPLHSQHSAN

Dave Washburn dwashbur at nyx.net
Mon Jul 23 10:24:09 EDT 2001


> 
> Acts 2:4a
> 
> KAI EPLHSQHSAN hAPANTES PNEUMATOS hAGIOU...
> 
> EPLHSQHSAN looks more like it comes from PLHROW than PIMPLHMI.
> 
> How does PIMPLHMI inflect into EPLHSQHSAN?
> 
Mark,
Robertson places this verb in a class he calls "non-thematic 
reduplicated present" and gives DIDWMI, hISTHMI and TIQHMI 
among others as examples.  To form the aorist the reduplication (a 
curious term at best!) is dropped and the aorist endings added, in 
this case aorist passive.  Throw in the aorist augment and you get 
EPLHSQHSAN.  If the word had been from PLHROW we would 
have seen the rho in it somewhere, e.g. EPLHRHQHSAN or some 
such (I don't have a text open in front of me at the moment).

Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"You just keep thinking, Butch.  That's what you're good at."




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